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Culture, feedback, and gender in education
Kinne, Lavinia - 2023
This dissertation consists of four distinct empirical essays that address various aspects of the economics of education. Chapters 2 and 3 show that patience and risk-taking as intertemporal preferences are closely related to differences in student achievement across and within countries. Chapter...
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Basic reading and mathematics skills and the labour market outcomes of young people : evidence from PISA and linked administrative data
Meehan, Lisa; Pacheco, Gail; Schober, Thomas - 2023
This paper uses Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) data linked to administrative data to track the …
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U-shaped wage curve and the Internet : the Colombian case
Martin, Diego A. - In: Estudios de economía 45 (2018) 2, pp. 173-202
While there is a broad consensus in the literature that there is a positive correlation between Internet usage and labor income in the richest countries, this link has not been proven in the developing world. This paper uses propensity score matching techniques and household survey data to...
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The Income-Achievement Gap and Adult Outcome Inequality
Nielsen, Eric Reed - 2015
This paper discusses various methods for assessing group differences in academic achievement using only the ordinal content of achievement test scores. Researchers and policymakers frequently draw conclusions about achievement differences between various populations using methods that rely on...
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Do temporary workers receive risk-premiums? : assessing the wage effects of fixed-term contracts in West-Germany by matching estimators compared with parametric approaches
Hagen, Tobias - 2001
The wage effects of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) are analysed with the GSOEP for West Germany. Different estimators which take into account selection bias are used. It is shown that propensity score matching estimators which are usually applied for the evaluation of active labour market...
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Informal-formal worker wage gap in Turkey : evidence from a semi-parametric approach
Hulagu, Timur - 2011 - This version: February 25, 2011, (preliminary and incomplete)
and semi-parametric techniques, we test two hypothesis regarding formal and informal labor markets: whether there is a … for formal-informal wage gap within gender groups, the semi-parametric estimates suggest that the observed formal … unemployment rates, the semi-parametric methods show that these gaps are insensitive to unemployment rate variations across regions …
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Chapter 1. Decomposition Methods in Economics
Fortin, Nicole; Lemieux, Thomas; Firpo, Sergio - In: Handbook of labor economics : volume 4, part A, (pp. 1-102). 2011
This chapter provides a comprehensive overview of decomposition methods that have been developed since the seminal work … the decomposition, as well as various estimation methods proposed in the literature. We also illustrate how these methods …
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Gender gaps in primary school achievement : a decomposition into endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors
Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Schils, Trudie - 2014
In elementary school, girls typically outperform boys in languages and boys typically outperform girls in math. The determinants of these differences have remained largely unexplored. Using rich data from Dutch elementary schools, we decompose the differences in achievement into gender...
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The informal sector wage gap : new evidence using quantile estimations on panel data
Bargain, Olivier; Kwenda, Prudence - 2009
This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and Mexico. We use rich datasets that allow us to define informality in a relatively comparable fashion across countries. We compute precise wage differentials by accounting for...
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Female wage profiles : an additive mixed model approach to employment breaks due to childcare
Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Kauermann, Göran - 2010
The paper investigates female wage profiles in West-Germany between 1984 and 2008 using data from the German Socio Economic Panel. The empirical study focuses on the short-run wageloss due to childcare and the long-run wage-profile in post-birth employment, respectivly. This is compared with...
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